Mykhailo S. Huk

Mykhailo Serhiyovych Huk was born on January 28, 1991, in the village of Bezuklivka, Shchorsky District, Chernihiv Oblast. In 2009, he graduated from the Shchorsky Higher Vocational School of Forestry. On November 30, 2016, Mykhailo Huk decided to join the ranks of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. After signing a contract for military service, he was enrolled in the personnel lists of the 105th Border Guard Detachment. During his military service, he held the position of a technician in the engineering support division of the state border, conducting engineering and fortification arrangements for checkpoints, firing positions, and the deployment areas of the State Border Guard Service units, as well as servicing equipment. Since the beginning of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Senior Sergeant Mykhailo Huk took a stand to defend the city of Chernihiv. Under numerous massive artillery and mortar shelling, together with his comrades-in-arms, he gave a worthy rebuff to the occupiers who attempted to breach Ukrainian positions. On March 28, 2022, while part of a group of border guards moving in an official vehicle to the site of a combat mission in the area of the village of Novyi Bilous, Chernihiv Oblast, Mykhailo Huk encountered an enemy ambush. The vehicle was fired upon with various types of weapons, exploded, and caught fire. Mykhailo Huk, who was in the vehicle, died on the spot. For his personal courage and selfless actions demonstrated in the defense of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and loyalty to the military oath, Senior Sergeant Mykhailo Serhiyovych Huk was posthumously awarded the "Defender of the Fatherland" medal.